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Government finally recognizes the Second Amendment
American Thinker ^ | 21 Jun, 2025 | Mike McDaniel

Posted on 06/21/2025 4:28:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber

How far has America fallen when the DOJ’s Civil Rights division files an amicus brief with the Supreme Court supporting the Second Amendment against Illinois, and that filing is unusual? How can it be that the DOJ defending a fundamental, unalienable, express constitutional right should be rare, so rare as to be surprising, even astonishing?

If Democrats and their media propaganda arm are to be believed, Donald Trump is a dictator bent on destroying “our democracy.” Ironically, they’re right. He is determined to destroy “our—their—democracy,” which is a tyranny of the majority. That’s why Dems are so desperate to keep every illegal in the country. They want that 50.0000001%, which in a democracy rules. In “our democracy” the majority can deprive the minority of property, rights, liberty, even life. Thus did Biden’s Handler’s Forestry Service try to imprison South Dakota ranchers Charles and Heather Maude over a fence built before they were born. Under “our democracy” they would have gone to jail for ten years leaving their children without their parents. Under our constitutional, representative republic, the charges were dropped.

Such is the tyranny of Donald Trump who ordered his Administration to protect the Second Amendment rights of Americans. “Our Democracy,” like all would-be tyrants, wants to disarm all Americans. Trump, the dictator, wants American’s Second Amendment rights protected.

The issue in this case is Illinois’ violation of the Second Amendment and the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision by banning “assault weapons,” primarily AR-15s, the most popular rifle in America, and “high capacity” magazines—actually, standard capacity magazines. Thus are Illinois’ Democrat rulers part of “our democracy” rather than America’s representative republic.

Graphic: X Screenshot, DOJ, Public Domain

*The act violated the Second Amendment by banning AR-15s and other firearms that are in common use by law-abiding citizens

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; civilrights; doj

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1 posted on 06/21/2025 4:28:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Is this what a tyrant would do?


2 posted on 06/21/2025 4:28:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s the Feds responsibility to enforce the Constitution.

I always said they should enforce 2A this way against the states.

“Shall not be infringed” is pretty clear and US Constitution has supremacy.

Even though some states put their own version of 2A, they only did so under the presumption that ultimately it’d be the Feds violating that principle so they added it as a kind of additional guarantee.


3 posted on 06/21/2025 4:34:58 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: MtnClimber

Michigan constitution: every person has the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state. Not much wiggle room there.


4 posted on 06/21/2025 4:48:03 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: exnavy

Colorado constitution: The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.

Yet the commies here keep bending us over every year.


5 posted on 06/21/2025 4:53:09 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: exnavy

Guess we missed the “*” at the end defining all the exceptions. 😊👍


6 posted on 06/21/2025 5:09:36 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: MtnClimber
Very good. Now do the 4th Amendment.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

7 posted on 06/21/2025 5:13:06 AM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli ĝisfunde!)
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To: RandallFlagg

Michigan has added many unconstitutional modifiers, none of which matter to me.


8 posted on 06/21/2025 5:17:54 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: rktman

The Michigan laws greatly modify the constitution. Those should be repealed.


9 posted on 06/21/2025 5:19:32 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: RandallFlagg

I do like the simple language Michigan used.


10 posted on 06/21/2025 5:20:31 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bump


11 posted on 06/21/2025 5:30:27 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.9)
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To: MtnClimber
If the Trump administration gets the federal DOJ to negate all state gun laws banning certain guns (i.e. “assault weapons”) and nationwide right to carry/reciprocity, I will consider his presidency a success.
12 posted on 06/21/2025 5:46:43 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane' )
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To: MtnClimber

“Their” democracy is the tyranny of a minority through voting chicanery, both foreign and domestic.


13 posted on 06/21/2025 5:53:30 AM PDT by arthurus (| covfefe | i)
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To: fruser1

‘“Shall not be infringed” is pretty clear...’

I believe the “right” which “shall not be infringed” is not as clear and is seldom discussed.


14 posted on 06/21/2025 6:19:22 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: exnavy
Michigan constitution: every person has the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state. Not much wiggle room there.

Oregon is the same. Marxists can ignore State law, too.

15 posted on 06/21/2025 7:12:07 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Salman

No one remembers the wording in the 4th. Raids on Mar a Lago were unconstitutional. As is searching the car after a minor moving violation.


16 posted on 06/21/2025 7:19:19 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: kickstart

Ditto.


17 posted on 06/21/2025 7:23:21 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: gundog

Yes, we have a marxist gubner right now passing laws about public carrying of weapons, and storage of same.


18 posted on 06/22/2025 1:50:58 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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